Corset



Sept. 14 1926.

V. BUCHANAN consm Filed June 20, 1921 Patented Sept. lid, l fifi.

ltlhllTlE are VITA BUCHANAN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CORSET.

Application filed June 20, 1921.

My invention relates to improvements in corsets, and the same has for its object to provide a corset which will lit perfectly, be

comfortable to the wearer, and which will give to the person of the wearer a trim and graceful figure.

Further, said invention has for its object to provide acorset which may be readily adjusted in position upon the person of the wearer and snugly embrace the hips, thighs and buttocks.

Further, said invention has for its object to provide a corset whose open front edges may be secured together throughout their gage the inner edges of the stockings whereby to hold said seat members snugly against the buttocks.

Other objects will in part be obvious and in partbe pointed out hereinafter.

To the attainment of the aforesaid objects and ends my invention consists in the novel details of construction, and in the combination, connection and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully described and then pointed out in the claims.

in the accompanying drawings showing an illustrative 'embodiment of the invention Figure 1 is an illustrative View showing one form of corset constructed. according to and embodying my said invention in position upon the wearer;

Fig. 2 is a side view showing one-half or part of the corset spread out. and

Fig. 3 is a detail side view of the lower back portion of the corset showing a modification.

In said drawings 10 designates a corsetwhieh, for the purposes of illustrating my invention is hereln shown as an open front corset comprising two similarly shaped halves or parts 11 jointly forming a body portion adapted to embrace the waist, hips and seat. I

The halves or parts 11 are provided at the upper portions of their rear edges with eyelets 14 to receive one or more laces, as, for

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example, 15, for adjustably securing the said rear edges together. The front edge of one of said halves or parts 11 is provided adjacent to its upper portionv with studs 16., and below said studs witlr loops 16, and the front edge of the other of said halves or,

parts is provided with eyes 17 adapted to engage the studs 16, and below saioleyes 17 with hooks 17 registering with the loops 16' of the adjacent edge.

The front edges of the corset halves or parts, whetherthe same be a high or a low corset, are firmly secured together throughout their entire lengths by the studs 16 and eyes 17, and the hooks and loops 16,, 17, while the rear edges of the corset halves or parts are secured together by the lace 15 down to about the end of the spine of the wearer.

The lower rear edge of each half or part is curved downwardly and forwardly towards the lower outer edge of the side of the half or part where the same meets the downwardly and rearwardly curved lower The lower rear part or seat portion of."

is secured one end of a stocking supporter front edge to form a tab or tlap 1 9, to which each half or part is cut away, and to the; ref sulting edges 15 secured an elasticfscat m sert 20 which is substantially rectangular ia form and preferably made of elastic." web-,1

bing having its elastic threads 20 extend" mg diagonally from the upper inner end of said insert 20 to its lower ,outer corn(- r-.

thereof. The outer lower edge 21 of said elastic seat insert is curved at its side an conformity with the lower edge of; the corset" pering members or inserts 20 are curved in wardly so that when their free ends are secured to the inner upper, edgesof the stockings, the said opposing edges Wlll form a more or less rounded or elliptical open portion 23 the purpose of which is obvious.

-. vided with .an adjusting slide 26 to permit o; the adjustment of the attaching device 2 It is to be noted that by means of my improved corset construction, the hips, thighs and seat of the wearer are effectively held to shape by the seat embracing portions and by the action of the stocking supporters 19', 25, which tend to draw the sides and the seat portions of the corset taut and thereby efliciently shape and confine the corset about and to the thighs and seat of the wearer.

Further, it is to be noted that although I have shown the invention as applied to a corset which is formed of two parts, open at both the front and back, it will be ob-.

vious that the invention is equally applicable to corsets which are open either at their front or at their back portions only.

Having thus described my said invention what I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent is:

l. A corset comprising a body portion adapted to be secured together to confine the body of the wearer, and including an elastic seat portion having a free lower edge and means for maintaining the lower edge of the seat portion extended downwardly and forwardly and under tension, substantially as specified.

2. A corset comprising a body portion adapted to be secured together to confine the body of the wearer, ah including a seat portion having a free lower edge, and means for maintaining the lower edge of said seat portion extended diagonally, forwardly and downwardly at its central part between the legs of the wearer, substantially as specified.

A corset comprising a body portion, adapted to be secured together to confine the body of the wearer, and including a seat portion having a free lower edge, and means secured to said seat portion and adapted for securement to the stockings for maintaining said free lower edge extended downwardly and forwardly between the legs of the wearer, substantially as specified.

4. A corset comprising a body portion adapted to be secured together to confine the body of the wearer, and including a seat portion having a free lower edge, and elastic means secured to the seat portion and adapted for securement to the stockings for maintaining said lower rear edge of said seat portion extended downwardly and forwardly between the legs of the wearer, substantially as specified. I

5. A corset comprising a body portion adapted to be secured toge her to confine the body of the wearer, an e astic seat port on therefor having a free lower edge, and

means for maintaining a part of the free A lower edge of said elastic seat portion extended diagonally downwardly and forward ly between the legs of the wearer, substantially asspecified.

6. A corset comprising a body portion adapted to be secured together to confine the body of the wearer, an elastic seat portion therefor having a free lower edge, ends projecting from said seat portion, and means secured to said projecting ends for maintaining a part of said elastic seat portion drawn downwardly and forwardly between the legs of the wearer whereby to conform said elastic seat portion to the buttocks of the wearer, substantially as specified.

7. A corset comprising a body portion adapted to be secured together to confine the body of the wearer, an elastic seat portion comprising two parts having free lower edges and separated at their inner vertical edges, ends projecting downwardly and forwardly from said elastic seat portions, and members each secured at one end to one of said projecting ends and having its other end adapted for attachment to a stocking whereby to hold said elastic seat parts drawn forwardly between the legs, and severally body of the wearer,a divided seat therefor,

and seat retaining members extending diagonally downwardly and forwardly from the adjacent lower edges of said seat and each adapted for securement to a stocking whereby to maintain said seat portion under tension and conformed to the body of the wearer, substantially as specified.

10. A corset comprising a body portion adapted to be secured together to confine the body of the wearer, an elastic seat therefor composed of two parts each having a free lower edge, a seatretaining member extending diagonally downwardly and forwardly from the inner lower edge of each of said elastic seat parts and adapted for securement to-a stocking whereby to maintain said seat parts under tension and conformed to. the gogy of the wearer, substantially as speci- 11. A corset comprising a body portion, a pair of substantially rectangular elas in seat portions at the lower rear portion thereof each having a free lower edge, a member extending diagonally downwardly and forwardly from the free corner of each of said seat portions, stocking supporting members extending from said diagonally extending members and in prolongation thereof, and

stocking supporting members secured to the 10 Signed at the city oiNew York, in the county and State of New York, this 13th day 15 of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one.

VITA BUCHANAN. 

